This is way too general for my taste. I'm a creative guy when it comes to solving problems, but when it comes to graphic design, for example, I suck. I don't ne

This is way too general for my taste. I'm a creative guy when it comes to solving problems, but when it comes to graphic design, for example, I suck. I don't need to try it myself because I don't even know where to start with that kind of creative process. My mind just doesn't work that way. Don't always do it yourself first. Besides, I'm too busy writing code and that's what I do well, so there's no point for me to try to be a jack of all trades. Also, if you want to do everything yourself first, I hope you're not in much of a rush to get your overall project finished. There are a lot of things that you can easily understand and appreciate without having actually done them yourself. If you need to do everything yourself first, you're probably not going to be a great manager or boss. A good manager should have a good sense of what his/her employees are doing and be able to get them to communicate the most important parts of the job without actually having to do the job. Sure, you'll have a better sense if you do it yourself, but that doesn't mean that's a good trade-off in terms of how to spend your time. There are a lot of tasks that you can intelligently analyze without actually doing them. Are there a lot of crappy managers out there who have no sense of the jobs their reports are doing? Sure. But they can put some effort into understanding them without actually doing them. It's more of a communication issue, not an execution issue. Finally, I'm assuming the post is in the context of getting a project finished, not running a company. But if it's the latter, then I think it's especially bad advice: taxes, legal, accounting, etc. should NEVER be done by anyone other than an expert unless it's at an EXTREMELY basic level (and even then it's still usually a bad idea). I'm sure founders with limited financial resources fall into this trap sometimes, but it can really bite you in the ass down the road.